Lead Software Engineer

DTCC • Boston, MA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

This role is a senior hands‑on engineering position focused on designing, building, and operating highly resilient, cloud‑native enterprise Java applications
at scale. The engineer acts as a technical authority for one or more critical DTCC systems, partnering closely with business analysts, infrastructure, and DevOps to deliver secure, high‑performance, event‑driven solutions.

Success in this role requires deep expertise in Spring‑based microservices, Kafka‑centric architectures, cloud/container platforms (Kubernetes/OpenShift), CI/CD automation, and operational excellence—including risk, controls, and production support. The role emphasizes engineering craftsmanship, system resiliency, and continuous delivery in a fast‑paced, regulated environment.

Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
• Proven track record designing, developing, and delivering enterprise‑grade applications using Enterprise Java.
• Strong understanding of application security, transactional processing, scalability, and high‑resiliency system design.
• Expertise with Spring ecosystem: Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring Kafka, and Maven multi‑module projects.
• Hands‑on experience with event‑driven architectures, including Apache Kafka and high‑throughput message processing.
• Strong knowledge of Redis for caching and data access patterns.
• Experience implementing effective caching strategies using Redis and Spring Cache.
• Deep experience with Aurora PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and schema design.
• Hands‑on expertise with Liquibase for database versioning and migrations.
• Knowledge of database partitioning and data scalability strategies.
• Strong understanding of cloud architectures and methodologies (IaaS, PaaS).
• Hands‑on experience with containerization and orchestration, including Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Helm charts.
• Experience designing and supporting multi‑region, highly available deployments.
• Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, automation, and cloud management tools.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, using tools such as Jira.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and apply them effectively.
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, dynamic, and highly regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical expert on one or more applications utilized by DTCC
• Work with the Business System Analyst to ensure designs satisfy functional requirements
• Partner with Infrastructure to identify and deploy optimal hosting environments
• Tune application performance to eliminate and reduce issues
• Research and evaluate technical solutions consistent with DTCC technology standards
• Align risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalate appropriately
• Apply different software development methodologies dependent on project needs
• Contribute expertise to the design of components or individual programs, and participate in the construction and functional testing as well as troubleshooting, and production support
• Create applications and construct unit test cases that ensure compliance with functional and non-functional requirements
• Work with peers to mature ways of working, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
• Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level